Machine Learning

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Supervised Learning

Supervises algorithms that are used to classify data or predict outcomes

Unsupervised Learning

Allows computers to learn patterns in the dataset without the need for human intervention

Feminist: the person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes

Feminism as Action

Belief in and advocacy of the political, economic, and social equality of the women and men (and non-binary people) through organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests.

Merriam Webster

Intersectional Feminism

Focuses beyond women and gender.

Focuses on the distribution of power — Who has it and who doesn’t

Intersectionality is a concept out of Black feminism, conceptually derived by the Combahee River Collective and linguistically created by Kimberlee Crenshaw.

Data is Power

“Data is the new oil.”

The Economist, Intel CEO, Reliance Industrices CEO, UAE Minister of Artifical Intelligence, Google execs, etc., mainly elite white men

“Data is the same old oppression.”

BIWOC, white women, Indigenous people, immigrant communities, LGBTQ+ individuals, + more

Joy Buolamwini found that she had to put on a white mask for the facial detection program to “see” her face.